LOL! Yeah, that was the nutty claim by David Hatcher Childress, in the same book that he claimed that Marconi built flying saucers and he and his followers colonized Mars. It is apparently untroubling to Childress that the tower never became operational and was abandoned by 1906.
All I know is that upon Tesla’s death, his notebooks were confiscated by the US government and are still classified to this day. Some theorized that he even dabbled in time travel.